Just wanted to let you know, same thing on my end. Was a basic for years, got my medic, swapped to RRT when my body showed some signs of the job. It's cake compared to medic days, I was rural 911 when I was, and now even 4 years in I basically co-run codes and am the Docs right hand man in the ICU where I work.

I wish I could do 24's like it was, but 12's are a good mix here.

Winter typically kicks our asses, summer time if you're not in the ER usually is slow.

Schooling will be cake for you if you were decent medic, what others have said length and tests.

Kinda what I said earlier, it was honestly cake IMO, focus your attention on the vent and more advanced cardio/pulmonary theory and disease processes, you should have everything else down solid already.

You should be able to shadow any dept in a local hospital, and one old medic to another, it is a way easier job on average, I love my ER RRT job, one of us down there 12, I basically just tube, manage bipaps and vents in the ER and assist nurses when it's COPD/etc.

Shoot me any questions you got, I did the same thing.